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By Dr. Elias Akleh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The hypocrisy of the American legislators has never stopped to amaze me. On Thursday March 4th The House Foreign Affairs Committee had approved, by 23 to 22 votes, a non-binding resolution to condemn WWI-era massacre of Armenians on the hands of the...

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By Maidhc Ó Cathail* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz This month marks the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Despite the passage of time, there is still much confusion, some of it deliberate, about why America made that fateful decision. The following questions are intended to clarify who's to blame...

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By Michael Gillespie* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz An ongoing investigation by the Dubai Police force into the assassination of a high-level Hamas official in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in January has drawn back the curtains of secrecy and deception to reveal yet again the contours of...

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By Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz THIS week, when I return to my village in the occupied West Bank, I face possible arrest by Israel for engaging in nonviolent protests against abusive Israeli policies opposed by our own government. This prospect is difficult after 29 years of living in...

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Who's to blame for the #Iraq #war? | Sabbah Report | http://ow.ly/1jdPx #French protest import of #Israeli #settlement goods http://ow.ly/1iZM2 Norman Finkelstein: Truth and Consequences in #Gaza http://ow.ly/1iZe8 #Israel aims its nuclear warheads at #Europe http://ow.ly/1iYXS U.S. gave #Israel green light for East #Jerusalem construction – http://ow.ly/1iYTU #Israeli Soldiers Brutalizing #Palestinian #Children http://ow.ly/1iYRa #Video: How Can...

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Interview With Jeff Gates By Press TV. To restore national security requires a reappraisal of the U.S.-Israeli "special relationship." Jeff Gates is A widely acclaimed author, attorney, investment banker, educator and consultant to government, corporate and union leaders worldwide. Part 1: Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgxHi5AS3L4 Part 2: Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn-78xAW0Sw Part 3: Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbc9FTIcTZY US / Israel: The...

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By Yousef Munayyer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz When he visited the Middle East, then Senator Barack Obama had a rude awakening. He was on the ritual visit for American presidential candidates to Israel, which usually consist of touring sites of significance to Jews and declaring support for the state of...

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By Sam Bahour* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz We are told that President Obama has taken a leap of political faith in trying to bridge a final peace settlement between Palestinians and Israelis. The United States' new weapon is "proximity talks": if either side fails to meet...

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By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Amazing! While in Israel, an American vice president explicitly condemns an Israeli decision to build yet more homes, 1,600 apartments, in occupied Arab East Jerusalem. "I condemn the decision by the government of Israel to advance planning for new housing...

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By Dr. Alan Sabrosky* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu once remarked to a Likud gathering that "Israel is not like other countries." Oddly enough for him, that time he was telling the truth, and nowhere is that more evident than with Jewish nationalism, whether or not...

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Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association – 8 March 2010 Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association marks International Women's Day 2010 by honoring, commemorating and saluting Palestinian women political prisoners and detainees in their steadfast resistance against Israeli colonial occupation and struggle towards securing the right of Palestinians to...

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Najla Said, playwrite, reads from her play, of her life changing visit to Gaza as a teenager, with her Palestinian activist writer father, the late Edward Said, after he learned he had leukemia. (New York City Ethical Culture Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEMrmRCbvA0 Hat tip: Ram Najla Said reads of her teenage visit to Gaza...

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By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz "The suicide bomber wrote that he began to live the day he came to know he was to die. Where did he get this passion to kill?" - Mahesh Bhatt Here in the civilised West we hate suicide bombers with a passion. We're taught that...

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The Sequel to the Video YouTube Censored: Max Blumenthal and Jesse Rosenfeld interview young Tel Aviv residents about Iran, Obama and right-wing laws limiting the speech rights of their Palestinian-Israeli neighbors. The shocking responses reflect the deepening of racist and authoritarian trends in Israeli society. This is the sequel to "Feeling...

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By Pam Rasmussen* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz When I wrote last, I was still in Cairo, beginning to lose hope. However, shortly after, a friend at the UN Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) was miraculously able to get me into Gaza through Israel's Erez Crossing. In a shockingly quick two...

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A commentary by Anthony Lawson on Gordon Brown's statement to The Iraq Inquiry on March 5th, 2010: Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wmx-iQHI4I Reference Birth Defects: http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/extremedeformities.html Depleted Uranium: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4207.htm Gordon Brown's Shocking – "It was the right decision" [Video] is a post from: Sabbah Report. Get Daily Newsletter, follow on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook. Gordon Brown's...

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By Paul J. Balles* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Living through five or six major wars has hardened me to what I thought were the extremes of inhuman cruelty and brutality. Two things made those extremes almost bearable: the brutality always revealed – at least according to the media coverage – the...

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By Dr. Elias Akleh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Netanyahu's late decision to include the Islamic Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil (Hebron) and Bilal Mosque in Bethlehem to the so-called "Israeli list of national heritage sites" seems to re-ignite the spark of religious war between Jewish Israelis on one side and the...

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By Nadia Hijab* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz They hail from opposite parts of the globe, but they have much in common: Jewish; experts on and passionate defenders of international law; and pummeling bags for Israel and the Palestinian Authority. And the future of the law of war lies at the...

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By Alan Hart* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz There could not be a more graphic illustration of the double-standard that drives Western foreign policy and has prevented a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict than Prime Minister Gordon Brown's explanation to the Chilcot Inquiry on why he, when he...

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